Professions and Work Quotes

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie

To advise is not to compel

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything, a good reason and the real reason.